You can’t rest unless you get tired
You can’t create unless you are rested
Live in such way that when you end the day — your bed is the sweetest place on earth
Don’t move from that bed until you can’t help but jump the fuck out through the roof
This is not a hustle motivation mind you but a LIFESTYLE ADVICE
You were meant to exert energy and then recover it
Burning energy you don’t have is as much a sick perversion as is failing to duly utilize it when available
There is nothing fancy about productivity
There is not supposed to be no struggle that goes into productivity
All this struggle is just you battling you
You are merely supposed to utilize the energy you already have flowing in you
Your own mind and body should reward you with a pleasant cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones
Life is lovely and simple
We over-complicate it. Turn it into something which it is not
“Hard work” is how we attempt to bridge the gap between failing and succeeding
Gap we fail to understand, gap we refuse to attribute to matters apparently beyond our control. Like intelligence and skill and talent
Get over that.
When you’re free from ideas about your work and your duties and your place in the world you can act harmoniously again
It really is possible for everything to fall into place — you just have to withheld yourself from ruining it with your conflicting ideas and preconceptions
Your sofa is a perversion too, obviously.
Procrastination is merely a response against compulsion. It’s your own psyche knowing you don’t really want to occupy yourself with a certain pointless, arbitrary task you ambitiously undertook — and it overcompensates by triggering the polar opposite response — a terrible self-indulgent slack
Therefore
Live in such way that when you end the day — your bed is the sweetest place on earth
Don’t move from that bed until you can’t help but jump the fuck out through the roof
Go all out when you’re inspired
Then drop in your bed
There is nothing wrong with either for as long as it is appropriate
For as long as it is genuine
If you can only be genuine
You have dispelled the entire dreadful conflict of what-you’re-supposed-to-do and how-useful and how-productive you ought to be and all the rest of this nonsense
If you can only be genuine
So live simply
In such way that when you end the day — your bed is the sweetest place on earth
Don’t move from that bed until you can’t help but jump the fuck out through the roof